Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
New York University
January 5-8, 2016
All lectures are in 109 Warren Weaver Hall
251 Mercer Street
Directions
TUESDAY JANUARY 5
| 8:15 | Registration opens (coffee and light refreshments available) |
| 8:45 | Welcoming remarks |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Epifanio Virga, Universita di Pavia Canonical density functional theory for hard repulsion Abstract |
| 9:45 - 10:25 | Pingwen Zhang, Peking University The mathematics of defects in liquid crystals Abstract |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Tim Sluckin, University of Southampton Modeling smectic layers in confined geometries: Order parameter and defects Abstract |
| 11:45 - 12:25 | Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania Cholesteric geometry and topology Abstract |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Alain Goriely, Oxford University A geometric theory of nonlinear morphoelastic shells Abstract |
| 2:45 - 3:25 | Alain Karma, Northeastern University Continuum modeling of crystal defect dynamics Abstract |
| 3:30 - 6:30 | Poster Session and Reception, 13th Floor WWH List of poster presentations |
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6
| 8:30 | Coffee and light refreshments available |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Pedro Reis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wrinkling crystallography on curved surfaces Abstract |
| 9:45 - 10:25 | Christian Santangelo, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The mechanics of origami structures and shells Abstract |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Yury Grabovsky, Temple University Asymptotically sharp Korn-type inequalities in the mathematical analysis of buckling of cylindrical shells Abstract |
| 11:45 - 12:25 | Dominic Vella, Oxford University Poking around: New insights into wrinkly isometries Abstract |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Maria Giovanna Mora, Universita di Pavia Homogenization of time-dependent systems of dislocations Abstract |
| 2:45 - 3:25 | Celia Reina, University of Pennsylvania A multiscale perspective on the kinematics of elastoplasticity Abstract |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee break |
| 4:00 - 4:40 | Ryan Murray, Carnegie Mellon University Second-order gamma limits for the Cahn-Hilliard functional with applications to slow motion of interfaces Abstract |
| 4:45 - 5:30 | Round table discussion: “The International Researcher” |
THURSDAY JANUARY 7
| 8:30 | Coffee and light refreshments available |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, New York University Kinetics of particles with short-range interactions Abstract |
| 9:45 - 10:25 | Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan Two dimensional melting of hard shapes |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Sylvia Serfaty, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie & New York University The statistical mechanics of Coulomb and Riesz gases: a variational approach Abstract |
| 11:45 - 12:25 | Michael Shelley, New York University Microtubule and motor-protein assemblies Abstract |
| 12:30 - 2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Xavier Lamy, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Defects in nematic colloids Abstract |
| 2:45 - 3:25 | Emmanuelle Lacaze, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Self-organized arrays of topological defects in thin smectic liquid crystal films Abstract |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Coffee break |
| 4:00 - 4:40 | Arghir Zarnescu, University of Sussex Point defects in liquid crystal models: between Oseen-Frank and Landau-de Gennes Abstract |
FRIDAY JANUARY 8
| 8:30 | Coffee and light refreshments available |
| 9:00 - 9:40 | Emanuel Lazar, University of Pennsylvania Voronoi topology for structure analysis in atomic systems Abstract |
| 9:45 - 10:25 | Cyrill Muratov, New Jersey Institute of Technology Low density phases in geometric and phase field models of uniformly charged liquids Abstract |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 | Xian (Sherry) Chen, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology A study of the formation of microstructure for highly reversible martensitic materials Abstract |
| 11:45 - 1:30 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:30 - 2:10 | Brian Spencer, State University of New York, Buffalo Corner wetting during the vapor-liquid-solid growth of faceted nanowires Abstract |
| 2:15 - 2:55 | Massimiliano Morini, Universita di Parma A variational approach to epitaxially strained elastic films Abstract |